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Well it was a great day out. I did 3 runs of the strip with my knees knocking and clammy hands gripping the wheel with white knuckles! I then decided to give the poor thing a rest and entered my GT6 “Little Green Monster”, in the “Pride of Ownership” show and was really surprised to win the prize for BEST MODIFIED SIXTIES CAR. We’ll have to see how she does at Stafford ( I am showing her in the 40 GT6’s on Saturday and “Modified Triumph” on Sunday). The organizers were impressed that mine was one the few cars on show that actually “got caned” up the strip as well. I guess regular readers of these mags should look out for the show report in the next issue. The best of all though was the number of spectators who came off the banking and wandered over to the car, just to tell me how wonderful she sounded at 7000 rpm! So hopefully I have introduced a few more hundred people to the sweet sound of Triumph Six at full chat!

For those interested in statistics my best run was 16.60secs at 86mph, which apparently is respectable for a car that still needs setting up on the rolling road and a driver who needs to learn the technique (or any technique for that matter). She should easily be in the 15s bracket, with 14’s possible. I was launching very carefully keeping Mr Binnington’s sage advice in mind, but was quite impressed that my 0 – 60 time was under 9 secs, so 7 secs bracket should be possible.

All in all, a good day out except when my daughter reminded me that the combined age myself and the car is 95yrs (Note to self - Must grow up)!!!!!